Selection List Dialog

keyboard shortcut: Shift+Alt+T

This list shows the currently selected objects (nodes, ways, closed ways and relations).

Additional notes:

• Selection is independent per each layer
• - Selection in other layers will be preserved after unsuccessful search
• This dialogue has not 3, but 5 control elements in total (refer to corresponding section)

Naming

• Nodes are shown with their names (likewise their OSM-ID) and their position in brackets.
• Ways and closed ways are shown with their names and if no name-tags exist with their main tag (eg highway, landuse, railway ...). If JOSM is not able to interpreted any tag the OSM-IDs are shown. The numbers of nodes the ways consist of are always shown in brackets.
• Relations are shown with their type and in brackets the name and the number of members.

Control buttons

Select

Select selects the objects currently selected in the selection list.
Note: A very powerful tool is the selection history. Click on the small triangle on the Select button.

Small triangle in Select button

Small triangle within the you can restore previous selections from a drop down list:

Search

Search is an often unseen feature: it allows a very sophisticated search.

Small triangle in Search button

Like Select the small triangle within the Search button also offers a drop down search list of previous search.

History

History opens the History Browser

See also

• Search.

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